Hello, my name is Sascha, I am 30 years old and, like quite a few other colleagues, I come from Leverkusen. I have been working at SK-Office Deutschland GmbH since 1 March 2021, so I am still the “new recruit” in the team ????. Before I started in March I worked as a working student for an HR services provider and was able to gain experience in the HR field. I completed my training as an office administrator at an energy supplier. So you could say that I have gained many insights into the workings of various service companies. Two things are extremely important to me in life. The first, as for many others, is family. I love spending time with my family, but especially with my two nephews. As an uncle you have to get up to a lot of mischief with them both, and that happens regularly. The second important part of my life is sport. Whether active myself or watching on TV, sport was and is a significant part of my life. I played football in a club myself for over 20 years and was also able to coach youth teams for 4 years, which helped me a great deal in terms of teamwork and internal communication and was enormous fun. After my “active” career I have stayed true to sport and still train regularly to keep fit, and at weekends I regularly go hiking to escape everyday stress.
Another big hobby of mine is gaming: whether computer or console, point-and-click adventure or first-person shooter, I play whatever comes my way. I was already playing on various consoles at a young age. It all started with friends, in whose basements we played through days and nights. If there is any time left alongside everything else, I very much enjoy watching anime; here too I have a broad spectrum of genres that I like. What fascinates me is the variety and the imaginative worlds that have been created, which I hardly know from any “normal” series.
For me personally, coronavirus was one of the hardest challenges of my life. Finding a new job during that time was at times stressful and disheartening, because you rarely got meaningful feedback, as many companies had no planning certainty and then backtracked on staffing changes after all. Fortunately I did not let it get me down, because I received a great deal of support from family and friends. Even when you could not always see each other, there were other ways of communicating, staying in touch with others and sharing your worries and thoughts.
I hope that over the coming months we can slowly return to a “normal” everyday life and that the restrictions we currently have will gradually be eased. Many people who live alone or depend on social contact for their development are currently suffering the most. From personal experience it is not nice to watch grandparents decline mentally more quickly because of such things, or children not being allowed to meet their friends or pursue their hobbies. Five years ago we could never have imagined that such everyday things would not be possible.
One can only hope that in the near future we will be able to return to a carefree and “normal” life.